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Akira Kurosawa
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Blog Posts That Mention Akira Kurosawa
On the Sustained Emotional Strength of Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru
Akira Kurosawa focused on individual, ethical dilemmas
Celebrating the Kurosawa-Mifune collaboration
Cannes 1980: Kurosawa at Cannes
Seven Samurai Continues Its Ride Through Cinema’s Past and Future
Ghost of Tsushima: Director’s Cut Expands Gorgeous Game
Sony’s Ghost of Tsushima Pays Homage to Samurai Cinema
100 Great Moments in the Movies
Elected: 100 Must-See Foreign Films
The Monthlies
Opening Shots: ‘Yojimbo’
The Woman Who Saved “Star Wars”: Marcia Lucas (1945-2026)
Home Entertainment Guide May 2026: The Bride!, Wuthering Heights, Sentimental Value, More
Cannes 2026 Video #1: The 79th Cannes Film Festival Begins!
Home Entertainment Guide April 2026: Send Help, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, Highest 2 Lowest, More
Chaz Ebert’s 30 Best Movies of 2025 (and One Guilty Pleasure)
NYFF 2025: The 63rd Edition Comes to a Close
“The Ghost of Yōtei” is One of the Most Cinematic Games of the Year
Home Entertainment Guide: “28 Years Later,” “Materialists,” “Superman,” “Jurassic World Rebirth,” More
Robert Daniels & Odie Henderson Talk “Highest 2 Lowest”
Cannes 2025: Second Takes on a Few Fest Darlings
January 2025 Blu-Ray Guide: “Hundreds of Beavers,” “Smile 2,” “Venom: The Last Dance,” and More
Home Entertainment Guide: November 2024
Apocalypse Then: Godzilla Minus One Minus Color
Tokyo International Film Festival 2024: Godzilla Turns 70
New York Film Festival 2024: Preview and Thoughts on “The Brutalist,” “The Seed of the Sacred Fig”
Furiosa Doesn’t Feel Like Any Other Mad Max Film, and That’s What’s Wonderful About It
Cannes 2024: Normal Normal or Cannes Normal?
Cannes 2024 Video #2: The Festival Takes Off
I’ve Never Seen Anything Like It Before: Roger Corman (1926-2024)
It’s OK For Movies to Just End
Rise of the Ronin Wastes Interesting Setting with Clunky Gameplay
Home Entertainment Guide: August 2023
Five Great Tales from Cannes’ Past
Home Entertainment Guide: April 2023
A Road Paved with Bloodshed: High Plains Drifter Turns 50
The Whole Gag is Excess: Chad Stahelski on John Wick: Chapter 4
Only Remember Beautiful Moments: Carlos Saura (1932-2023)
Tom Luddy (1943-2023)
Book Excerpt: In the Time of Kiarostami: Writings on Iranian Cinema by Godfrey Cheshire
Tragedy Actually Brings Hope: Bill Nighy on Living
Isaac Feldberg’s Overlooked Films of 2022
Major Questions of the 2022 Oscar Race After TIFF
Sundance 2022: When You Finish Saving the World, Living, Call Jane
Sundance 2022: 20 Films We Can’t Wait to See
Bringing Out the Dead: A Pandemic Dialogue
The 10 Best Films for National Paranormal Day
Meet the Writers: Carlos Aguilar
Home Entertainment Guide: October 2020
Smile When You Say That: Joker’s Last Laugh
NYFF 2019: A Year of Milestones
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: July 11, 2019
A Sneak Peek at The Mandalorian from Star Wars Celebration Chicago
The Best Current Source for Streaming Classic Movies is … Amazon Prime?
Book Review: People Only Die of Love in Movies: Film Writing by Jim Ridley
Blu-ray Review: Criterion’s “100 Years of Olympic Films: 1912-2012”
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: June 22, 2017
Ebertfest 2017: “Hysteria,” “The Handmaiden,” “Elle”
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: January 5, 2017
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: November 17, 2016
2016 Fall Movie Preview: 50 Movies That’ll Prove Film Isn’t Dead
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The Wind and the Rain: Jon Favreau and Neel Sethi on “The Jungle Book”
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No Home Video: On Women-Directed Films
The Ten Best Films of 2015
Criterion Remasters of “The Apu Trilogy” and “Ikiru” Top Holiday Wish Lists
Setsuko Hara: 1920-2015
The Strange Case of “The Other Side of Midnight”
Who’s Who In Reviews: Simon Abrams
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The Lunchbox: Old School Anonymity Softens New World Discontent
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“Film & Cultural Politics” at Ebertfest
Blu-ray Consumer Guide: April 2, 2014
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Meet the Writers: Simon Abrams
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Dark Horse and the Samurai Tradition
Why samurai overact
TCM’s 15 most influential films of all time, and 10 from me
100 great movie moments
101 102 Movies You Must See Before…
The “Best” Non-English-Language Films (Round 1)
Bordwell & Thompson: Crix of the ’00s!
Top secret leakage from my 2010 Muriels ballot!
Name That Director!
You better you better you best: The better of the best lists
“The Messenger” discussed by Omar Moore of London and San Francisco
A man with storms in his head
Ants in Your Pants of 2006
The best damned film list of them all
The Twelve Gifts of Christmas
A few calm words about The List
A brief history of samurai
